Running two DS-Clients simultaneously

[lasseoe]

Hi,

We've recently bought our first Asigra license and have it all setup in production -- Now, we've made a backup of a Hyper-V VHD which works fine, the customer Hyper-V system is on-site at a customer and we'd like to restore it to a different Hyper-V cluster on a different physical location, due to bandwidth locations it'd be ideal if we could simply install a new DS-Client with the same CRI and do the restore test from there.
The original DS-Client was setup with "requires registration" so when I install the new one it seems that I *HAVE* to unregister the other one, but that also means I won't get a backup during the rather long window during which the restore-test-client will run.

Is there no way to have two ds-clients running at the same time, accessing the same data? I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.

Thanks! :)

[mvarre]

Well, technically you can just turn off "Requires Registration". You can also in theory just run a repair from the second location and do the restore from there, however I normally wouldnt recommend that since the other backup server is in production. Sync issues are sure to occur.

Proceed with caution if you plan on trying this out.

[jay]

I would reccend that you export out the backup set with a disc/tape. You can create another ds-client and use that for your restore box. As long as you keep your encyption keys the same you can restore from that disc.tape export...

[jay]

Another option is if you have a replication vault use the second ds-client to restore from your replication vault.

[lasseoe]

Thanks for the information - it hadn't occured to me that I could restore from a replication vault, unfortunately we don't have that just yet.

For the time being the customer has agreed to do a "proper" DR test, meaning that the ds-client will be shut down while we install a new one. Mean while I plan on testing the original scenario on a couple of virtual machines and see how it pans out, it's definitely something some of our customers will want to do.

Cheers,

- Lasse